Cannonball (1976)

Directed by

Paul Bartel

Genre

comedy film, action film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 128 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Racers drive illegally across the United States in a high-speed road race. The film follows several contestants and their mishaps during the journey.

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What happens

Cannonball (stylized on-screen as Cannonball!, and released theatrically in the UK as Carquake) is a 1976 comedy film directed by Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine. The film is co-produced by the American studios Cross-County Productions and Harbour Productions and Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studio. It is one of two released in 1976 that were based on the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, a real illegal cross-continent road race that took place for a number of years in the United States (the other being The Gumball Rally). The same topic later became the basis for the films The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and Speed Zone. The film was written and directed by Paul Bartel, who also directed Death Race 2000. The name of the film and the plot were inspired by Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker (1882–1960), who traveled across the United States several times, and by the illegal cross-continent road race introduced by Brock Yates to protest the 55 MPH speed limit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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